"His True Roots: the Bob Marley Story" (New Review) said Marley and his companions "would learn Aramaic". We meant Amharic, the official Ethiopian language, sacred to Rastafarians. (The name Rastafari is taken from the pre-regnal title of Haile Selassie I, composed of Amharic Ras – "Head" – and Haile Selassie's pre-regnal given name, Tafari.)